--- title: The cartoon ostrich comes from a real sight: an ostrich lowers its h… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: The cartoon ostrich comes from a real sight: an ostrich lowers its head to turn its eggs in a ground nest or lies flat to hide, and from far away it looks headless. Who acts: cartoon ostrich, ostrich, hump. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cartoon ostrich, ostrich, hump), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:3 # text = The cartoon ostrich comes from a real sight: an ostrich lowers its head to turn its eggs in a ground nest or lies flat to hide, and from far away it looks headless. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 35 headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the cartoon ostrich | | | a real sight | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lower** | present | a ostrich | sight's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a ostrich *not said here* | sight's eggs | | | | in a ground nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 4 | **lie** | present | a ostrich *not said here* | | | | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | a ostrich *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look** | present | hump | | | | | far, headless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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